The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 20th April 2026

00:00:00.000 oh good morning are you alright

00:00:04.960 hope you are i'm alright yeah had a good weekend cheers

00:00:11.380 it's monday monday monday another week another chance to set right what once went wrong

00:00:18.980 it's just ticked past eight in the a.m on monday the 20th april in the of our lord

00:00:24.580 2026 you are the glorious band the chosen few i don't need to tell you who you are

00:00:29.280 you know who you are you're the very best among us my band of brothers and sisters thank you for

00:00:34.140 joining me without you it's not a thing as always i'm joined by my producer little harry how are

00:00:38.060 you this morning good sir morning yeah i'm all good great all right shall we get into it

00:00:43.980 we stop faffing about and just get straight into it what's that cabal of fleet street evil fleet

00:00:50.020 street editors banging on about this morning want to try and tell you is or isn't important

00:00:54.060 what are they lying to you about by a mission this morning yeah don't mention iron and again

00:00:57.720 steel again this like every day don't mention ireland yeah don't mention epsom yeah don't

00:01:01.740 mention ehud barak got it commons showdown and starmer fights for future it's a wall-to-wall

00:01:09.880 mandy day basically more or less on the papers anyway starmer and mandy the greatest double

00:01:17.480 Act since

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00:01:25.900 You've got to be

00:01:27.740 old to get those

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00:01:28.520 You've got to be in

00:01:28.920 your 40s at least

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00:01:30.360 Harry you won't

00:01:31.200 know you don't

00:01:31.980 know Cannon and

00:01:32.580 Ball do you

00:01:33.520 No no

00:01:34.040 Okay sure okay

00:01:34.900 I'll move on

00:01:35.340 I'll move on

00:01:35.740 Common showdown

00:01:37.560 for Starmer over

00:01:39.360 Mandelson vetting

00:01:40.320 scandal and there

00:01:41.280 there's there's a 0.99

00:01:42.220 queer starling in 0.98

00:01:43.640 a nuclear submarine

00:01:44.760 one of the

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00:01:46.240 Nucleus of Marines

00:01:47.820 PM faces higher stakes statement to PMs after Guardian revelations

00:01:53.060 This wasn't just the Guardian, but yeah, the Guardian

00:01:54.640 Yeah, fair enough, they did do

00:01:57.040 Independent being good on it as well

00:01:59.040 They've all been chasing it, haven't they?

00:02:00.840 They've all been chasing it

00:02:01.860 But yeah, so today, on Monday, later today, on Monday

00:02:05.000 Starmer's going to go before the House

00:02:08.560 The actual House of Commons

00:02:10.820 And give us some sort of statement and answer some questions

00:02:13.160 All about what he knew and when

00:02:15.260 What the Prime Minister knew and when

00:02:17.520 Whether he'll double down on his liars

00:02:23.440 Or whether he'll be able to show somehow

00:02:26.740 That he wasn't lying

00:02:27.680 We'll see

00:02:30.280 Let's get to the iPad

00:02:31.480 Because that has got the best blurb

00:02:32.540 It's such wall-to-wall Mandy today

00:02:34.500 That we'll do the blurb

00:02:35.580 And we'll talk a fair bit about it

00:02:36.820 Quickly say

00:02:38.640 Vance sent to Iran

00:02:40.500 Sent to Iran talks with reasonable deal

00:02:43.000 And dire warning

00:02:44.480 Trump wants to have more talks with the Iranians in Islamabad

00:02:50.740 They're not even sending a delegation

00:02:52.420 We'll talk a bit about that later as well

00:02:55.560 After we get through the Mandy stuff

00:02:57.100 Mandelson had top level security clearance

00:03:01.040 That's not his vetting

00:03:01.840 That was the sensitive things he was allowed to see

00:03:05.480 Despite not having vetting

00:03:08.160 It was the highest level of clearance

00:03:09.840 All the secrets

00:03:13.100 more or less telegraph starman knew about mandelson red flags prime minister will give

00:03:18.920 his explanation to mps today in critical commons session all right so here's the ipaper starma

00:03:25.840 faces showdown in commons and fights for his future pm will set out his version of events

00:03:31.120 surrounding the peter mandelson security vetting fiasco and his decision to sack the head of the

00:03:37.860 foreign office sir ollie robbins because remember starmer says he didn't find out that manderson had

00:03:45.140 failed the vetting until last week at some point but as the guardian and i think the independent

00:03:50.500 as well certainly the guardian at least they've got receipts showing that number 10 did did know

00:03:57.180 must have known almost certainly must have known long before that so that's a lie that's just the

00:04:02.060 last liar among like a string of them isn't it and ollie robbins that foreign office um very very

00:04:09.220 senior secretary seven apparently now he's taking legal advice because he thinks he was unfairly

00:04:16.300 completely sort of unfairly dismissed um you know it was illegal essentially to fire him he didn't

00:04:25.020 do anything wrong ministers insist starmer was kept in the dark and did not mislead parliament

00:04:30.780 Saying he would have blocked the appointment

00:04:33.360 If he knew of vetting failure

00:04:34.900 Because if you remember as well

00:04:36.740 Starmer said a number of times

00:04:38.180 I think at least three times in Parliament

00:04:39.680 And many more times on top of that

00:04:41.660 All the due process was done correctly

00:04:44.900 To vet Mandy

00:04:46.640 And all the T's were crossed

00:04:48.820 And all the I's were dotted 0.75

00:04:49.700 Nothing to see here 1.00

00:04:51.000 It's just the case now isn't it

00:04:54.180 Of whether he said that in good faith or not

00:04:56.780 MPs set to grill PM

00:04:58.860 And question his judgement

00:05:00.780 sacked foreign office boss sir ollie robbins prepares for high stakes commons appearance

00:05:05.580 tomorrow yeah so he's gonna ollie robbins himself is going to go before select committee not he's

00:05:09.420 not an mp so he won't go in the actual the commons but in um another room inside the palace of

00:05:16.540 westminster he'll be grilled by people i wonder what he will say that will be i suspect that

00:05:21.820 will be much more interesting than what starmer says because starmer you can expect will just

00:05:27.900 squirm and pervaricate and

00:05:29.580 whatever but what Ollie Robbins

00:05:32.060 Ollie Robbins will probably have

00:05:33.460 more juicy information I would have thought

00:05:36.380 might tell us things we didn't know really

00:05:38.460 okay

00:05:39.980 a minister tells the eye paper

00:05:41.460 that while disquiet remains over

00:05:43.940 PM's leadership it was not intensified

00:05:46.400 i.e. whether

00:05:48.380 various people, Angela the Fridge Rainer

00:05:50.660 may be in conjunction with

00:05:52.260 Andy Burnham

00:05:53.020 does Andy Burnham wear

00:05:56.160 eyeliner

00:05:56.820 anyway whether there'll be a leadership challenge for him before before may even

00:06:04.420 day starmer has to stand up and take the blame as pm faces moment of reckoning on manderson scandal

00:06:12.360 he's told to stop hiding behind officials and finally accept culpability there's a picture of

00:06:17.340 amanda knox how old were you in 2010 you were still a small child right in 2010 i would have

00:06:24.980 five okay so you don't remember yeah okay everyone else remember amanda nox that american woman who

00:06:33.900 was accused of killing some other young lady in italy and was found guilty of it but in the end

00:06:38.860 was completely exonerated because it was obviously some black dude

00:06:42.800 obviously some black dude called rudy something or other but for a while she was like the darling

00:06:49.960 of the papers

00:06:50.700 Foxy Noxy

00:06:52.100 oh

00:06:52.540 why'd they do that 0.71

00:06:53.420 Foxy Noxy

00:06:54.600 like when they always

00:06:56.960 used to call Michael Jackson

00:06:57.800 Wacko Jacko

00:06:58.840 anyway 0.99

00:07:01.380 oh

00:07:02.420 Arsenal played

00:07:03.720 Man City

00:07:04.300 and it was a six pointer

00:07:06.060 kind of

00:07:06.620 you know

00:07:06.960 like whoever won that game

00:07:08.160 is probably going to go on

00:07:08.980 and win the Premiership

00:07:09.700 City won

00:07:11.020 alright

00:07:12.300 Judgment Day

00:07:13.240 shh

00:07:13.480 do do do do do

00:07:15.060 do do do

00:07:16.880 do do do

00:07:19.960 It's judgement day

00:07:22.760 It's not really is it

00:07:26.720 He'll probably get a grilling

00:07:28.200 Probably not going to be a pleasant day for him

00:07:30.120 But it's not like

00:07:30.860 It's not like his

00:07:33.660 Career is going to be over

00:07:35.360 Today

00:07:36.600 Alright

00:07:39.320 Oh there's something where he

00:07:40.800 Again

00:07:41.700 He

00:07:42.100 Kissed darling

00:07:43.340 Went on a nuclear submarine

00:07:44.780 And it's

00:07:45.300 Talking about heroes of the deep

00:07:46.520 To be honest

00:07:48.040 To be a submariner

00:07:49.060 i wouldn't fancy it it's pretty badass right i think

00:07:53.980 sometimes you're underwater for hundreds of days at a time

00:07:59.020 let's not have claustrophobia

00:08:03.120 yeah pretty badass i wouldn't fancy being a submariner to be perfectly honest

00:08:08.940 but it's good people do amazing amazing stuff they do the financial times oh look in china

00:08:15.600 a robot ran a marathon or run some sort of race faster than the humans yeah because it doesn't

00:08:24.960 run out of end as long as there's a battery in it it won't ever it won't ever ever stop

00:08:30.960 it's terminator reference day for me

00:08:35.280 it doesn't get tired it doesn't need a drink of water and it will never ever stop

00:08:41.120 uh well the battery lasts okay again man city harland there scored the winner one of the best 0.80

00:08:48.640 players in the world there all right something ridiculous from the star about you go punting

00:08:54.880 down the cam at cambridge ridiculous all right uh people steal loads of petrol at the petrol pump

00:09:04.800 you go to a petrol station fill up your car and then just drive away

00:09:10.560 Oh, the biggest story here, sorry, that is a story all in the news today

00:09:14.540 But the biggest story here is just crime in general

00:09:16.140 Crime in general cost the UK taxpayers £90 million a day

00:09:19.440 Yeah, because we've had a giant crime explosion

00:09:22.900 Over the last couple of decades

00:09:24.620 What changed?

00:09:25.760 What changed from about 1997 onwards

00:09:27.580 To mean that we've just got far more crime in this country than we used to have

00:09:31.220 Particularly violent robberies

00:09:34.420 and the bill to the state for prosecutions the police and the nhs where people get hurt all the

00:09:45.120 time it's just skyrocketed gone through the roof what changed what happened is that we got flooded 0.66

00:09:50.340 with foreign fifth columnists millions of them and per capita their crime rate is 1.00

00:09:58.040 gigantically higher than natives is that the reason it is isn't it the sun oh let's see you 0.97

00:10:05.300 go tank tank robbers 100 million pounds fill up and flee thefts soar in fuel crisis i don't know

00:10:12.840 how you can get away with that exactly eventually because of course there'll be cctv cameras and

00:10:17.300 they'll see your number plate won't the authorities eventually catch up with you and say look we've

00:10:23.240 got the receipt we got the footage of you you know your picture just driving away seems

00:10:29.460 like loads of well a hundred million pounds or is that a week or something people so many

00:10:37.680 people in this country think that the law just simply doesn't apply to them don't they

00:10:44.180 and in many cases it doesn't do a burglary in vast swathes of this country you'll almost

00:10:51.700 certainly completely get away with it steal a mobile phone statistically you will get away with

00:10:56.740 it steal a car quite likely to just get away with it please not really investigate it at all or at

00:11:03.040 all right let's do let's talk about starma for a minute let's talk about sir kia for a moment

00:11:14.440 I said on the main podcast of the Low Seated Channel

00:11:17.580 Last week

00:11:19.360 And I said it also on my own channel

00:11:22.060 I do with Nate

00:11:22.960 That channel is called

00:11:25.600 The State of Politics

00:11:26.560 I said on those two things

00:11:29.460 I'll say it again here

00:11:30.200 I think there are interesting parallels

00:11:32.840 Between what Keir Starmer is going through

00:11:35.180 Quite possibly the death throes of his leadership

00:11:37.720 And what Richard Nixon went through

00:11:40.420 President Richard Nixon

00:11:41.440 With the Watergate scandal

00:11:44.440 I want to talk about that a little bit

00:11:46.580 Now first of all

00:11:48.440 Can you go to the Staincam for a moment

00:11:49.900 Just a quick moment please Harry

00:11:51.440 State of politics

00:11:57.180 State of politics

00:11:57.880 Check it out

00:11:59.540 So the Waltergate scandal

00:12:02.640 What happened there

00:12:04.420 For anyone who doesn't know

00:12:05.220 On my other channel

00:12:06.440 My main channel

00:12:06.980 My first channel

00:12:07.720 History bro

00:12:08.460 Nothing behind a paywall there

00:12:10.320 It's all completely free there

00:12:11.940 Really early on

00:12:13.180 so like six, seven years ago, long before Lotus Eaters existed,

00:12:17.080 I did a series all about Nixon and the Watergate scandal.

00:12:20.600 So I think it's fascinating.

00:12:21.520 For some reason, it's one of those things in history

00:12:23.060 I've found fascinating for years and years and years.

00:12:25.520 Read a few books about it.

00:12:27.160 John Dean's book was very, very interesting.

00:12:29.180 Anyway, and don't get me wrong,

00:12:31.880 I'm not trying to throw shade on Nixon for the sake of it.

00:12:35.580 I think his Vietnam policy was a bit crazy.

00:12:39.560 But other than that, he did loads of good things for America. 0.70

00:12:43.180 those are good things his foreign policy with the russians and the chinese was pretty much

00:12:47.500 on point the salt talks he did nixon did quite a few good things i'm not a nixon hater in an

00:12:55.020 in and of even in of itself right he might have lost he narrowly lost to john kennedy in 1960

00:13:04.140 in 1968 he won and in 1972 his re-election was a landslide it was like top two or three landslides

00:13:10.380 of all time nixon's re-election in 1972 he was very very popular among normal americans 0.96

00:13:16.540 it was sort of the leftist media like hated his guts tricky dick hated his guts they would try 0.97

00:13:22.540 and find anything to destroy him okay but when it came to the walter gate scandal he did lie loads 1.00

00:13:31.020 and was caught in those lies and it's such a fool from grace that's and and the way he was 0.96

00:13:39.020 it was shown in the end the receipts it was just completely and utterly undeniable 0.96

00:13:46.460 and so he was just about to get impeached and then probably prosecuted and he just resigned

00:13:53.740 and gerald ford pardoned him immediately basically so he avoided going to jail

00:14:00.220 very narrowly the only president only ever to have to resign okay so what that was is the

00:14:07.100 original thing that happened wasn't nixon's fault a bit like this right it wasn't like keir starmer

00:14:13.500 failed to do the security checks was it wasn't like it was keir starmer's responsibility to vet

00:14:19.100 mandy and just didn't it was someone else's job and if we believe his story anyway let's believe

00:14:25.900 his story for a moment or at least an element of it he didn't know he wasn't even told that

00:14:29.900 mandy had failed the vetting again it's not that's not his fault is it you can't blame him for that

00:14:37.100 But then it's how you deal with it after that, right?

00:14:40.300 If you start lying and telling half-truths and spinning things after the fact, the cover-up.

00:14:48.980 So what happened with Nixon was that somehow people under him, some crazy rogue people under Nixon,

00:14:58.480 people like what, Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturges, James McCord, right?

00:15:06.540 A bunch of people way, way, way under Nixon

00:15:09.420 They worked at the White House

00:15:10.440 And were sort of on the White House books

00:15:11.780 But Nixon never ordered them to do anything like this

00:15:14.360 They broke into the Democrat

00:15:16.020 Nixon's a Republican

00:15:17.140 They broke into the Democrat headquarters

00:15:19.060 In the Watergate Hotel

00:15:20.220 Well, it was a Watergate office building complex

00:15:23.720 It's not just a hotel

00:15:24.680 It's this whole complex of buildings

00:15:26.680 The Democrats had one of their headquarters there 0.93

00:15:29.180 These crazy dudes like Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis 0.63

00:15:32.900 They broke in there and tried to bug it 0.88

00:15:34.800 Or did bug it

00:15:36.540 to just try and get dirt on the other side, on the enemy.

00:15:42.700 Dirty tricks, really bad dirty tricks, illegal stuff.

00:15:46.440 Anyway, the bugs weren't placed just right,

00:15:48.200 so they went back another time and broke in again.

00:15:50.520 And at that time, just the normal police, the normal DC police,

00:15:54.760 sort of got a call saying, there's people breaking into that building.

00:15:57.920 The normal police turn up, arrest them.

00:16:02.120 They didn't have guns or anything.

00:16:04.080 They had loads of espionage gear.

00:16:05.460 those are cameras and telephone bugs and stuff they didn't have guns so they were just arrested

00:16:11.000 okay so that happens when Nixon finds out about that he's like really angry he's like what the 0.99

00:16:17.440 hell what I think he called it like goddamn dumbest thing I ever heard 0.97

00:16:21.360 so that's Starmer and this Nixon didn't he's not responsible for that now what he should 0.99

00:16:30.080 have done at that point, Nixon, is just say, look, something crazy has gone on. Something

00:16:35.860 weird and bad and illegal has happened. I'm just going to completely come clean, say sorry.

00:16:42.120 I'm not responsible for it, but it did happen on my watch. The buck does stop with me.

00:16:46.320 Right? Let's do a full hangout for 100% truth. What happened here? He didn't do that. He

00:16:53.140 realised that some of the people like James McCaul worked for the committee to re-elect

00:16:58.740 the president and he worked for almost certainly was ordered by a guy called john mitchell who's

00:17:03.220 nixon's very good friend and attorney general and anyway it would even though nixon himself

00:17:07.460 wasn't responsible the fallout the political sort of scandal of it would affect the white house

00:17:12.840 and there's other things like howard hunt was on the white house payroll golden liddy was

00:17:18.380 so nixon should have just come clean at that point it would have been so much better and easier and

00:17:25.220 probably wouldn't have led to the end of his presidency if he just ripped the band-aid off at

00:17:29.020 that moment he didn't instead he tried to cover it up tried to lie about it and cover it up sort

00:17:35.620 of endlessly pretend there's an investigation going on pretend he's doing a band-aid ripping

00:17:39.320 off for hangout exercise but he never was and then the scandal just got worse and worse and worse

00:17:45.280 until that john mitchell had to be fired anyway until his closest right-hand men early gwen and

00:17:49.600 haldeman had to be fired anyway he's the the council to the white house john dean

00:17:53.680 in the end he got to the president himself and he had to he he was going to be impeached and

00:18:00.580 prosecuted and resign john dean in the of a stone movie is played by uh niles crane

00:18:07.780 remember fraser crane and his little brother niles crane and the smoking gun really or one

00:18:13.420 of the smoking guns for nixon because it was all recorded in the white house he had a recording

00:18:16.700 button under his desk and he could record everything that was going on

00:18:19.900 he recorded himself saying dodgy things and eventually they got out to this day you can

00:18:27.860 just go on youtube and listen to some of it it got out one point john dean says to nixon this is far

00:18:34.980 deep into the scandal the scandal lasted for like months and months and months 18 months or more

00:18:39.720 trickled on and on and on John Dean says look at this point if you want people like Howard Hunt

00:18:48.720 and Frank Sturgis to to be quiet to just take their criminal convictions and go to prison for

00:18:54.700 five years ten years and just refuse to mention you and the White House and John Mitchell and

00:19:01.120 Ehrlichman and Haldeman they're going to want loads of money like silently you need to silently

00:19:07.380 you have to pay them because they've got families and stuff you're gonna have to pay them loads of

00:19:12.400 money to keep quiet that's absolute criminal stuff at that point right truly truly criminal stuff

00:19:18.200 and the correct thing to do at that point well for nixon would have been said what are you

00:19:24.380 talking about that's crazy you're talking crazy stuff i'm not i'm not a gangster i don't pay

00:19:31.100 people to be quiet i'm the president of the united states but nixon goes how much

00:19:34.600 and john d says about maybe a million dollars nixon goes i can get that don't don't ask me

00:19:42.040 how but there's ways you can get that i can get that for you million million dollar hush money

00:19:46.020 yep go do it so once again with all that said i'll stop banging on about nixon now but the

00:19:54.400 point is the original thing nixon didn't do anything wrong but he lied about it afterwards

00:19:59.580 he tried to cover it up and lie about it afterwards endlessly kept doubling down and doubling down

00:20:03.360 and doubling down even years later after all the receipts are in and everyone knew exactly what the

00:20:08.820 president knew and when he'd still go on frost and try and lie about it it's like oh dude

00:20:13.140 so back to Keir Starmer it's not his fault is it I don't think that that Mandy didn't have the

00:20:24.840 vetting and was given the job anyway he's someone's probably told by someone way above his pay grade

00:20:29.720 to give mandy that job but with all the fallout of it the idea that he didn't know until last week

00:20:37.400 that seems like a liar it seems like he's caught in a liar there because the guardian and the

00:20:43.980 independent have got the receipts they're talking like people at the guardian and the independent

00:20:49.420 talking to tim the tool man taylor tim allen at the foreign office saying but we know we've got

00:20:55.900 sources that mandy didn't pass the vetting and surely number 10 would have known still starmer

00:21:03.180 he might even go before parliament today and keep doubling down go no no we done nothing wrong

00:21:07.580 i and number 10 have done nothing wrong

00:21:13.100 we definitely didn't lie to you about it a bunch of times going back for months now

00:21:17.100 it's like it's starting to get embarrassing really badly embarrassing

00:21:21.500 all right well there you go we shall see what he says whether he might try and do the thing

00:21:32.300 at this point of saying you know try and fall on people's good nature to say i'm really sorry

00:21:40.380 we did bugger up still can still insist i didn't know until last week but i'm really really sorry

00:21:47.080 The responsibility does stop with me

00:21:49.380 I take full responsibility

00:21:50.940 It's not really good enough though

00:21:54.440 Just to say that is it

00:21:56.060 Did you lie months ago or not

00:21:59.680 Yes or no

00:22:00.580 About something reasonably important

00:22:03.280 Well very important really

00:22:04.240 Whether Mandy was

00:22:05.480 Because Mandelson was sort of acting as

00:22:07.860 Something like a spy wasn't he

00:22:10.100 It seems like Mandy's 0.67

00:22:13.740 First allegiance

00:22:15.740 was to jeffrey epstein and the cabal that ran jeffrey epstein

00:22:20.760 isn't it

00:22:23.360 he would pass jeffrey epstein very very sensitive information right away

00:22:30.500 he could characterize that as espionage jeffrey epstein and the cabal that ran him

00:22:38.440 are sort of a foreign entity and they're sort of a foreign body

00:22:42.920 they absolutely should not have had sensitive if not market sensitive information coming from the

00:22:49.540 heart of the british government but that's exactly what mandy did how he's not actually

00:22:54.380 on remand right now mandy i mean how he's not in a cell right now for this stuff is mind-blowing to

00:23:01.560 me that's not to mention the china connection some reports over the weekend that mandy's

00:23:10.240 old advisory lobbying business that he sold his shares in just before it collapsed and made loads

00:23:18.280 of money but all the other partners didn't that their biggest client was a company that worked

00:23:22.660 very very very closely with the chinese military basically the chinese military

00:23:26.140 do we know if he passed them any secrets don't know that companies all their servers and all

00:23:32.940 their emails over 10 years mysteriously disappeared and it's gone so mandy is 0.61

00:23:40.100 dodgy as hell about as dodgy as it could be really super super super dodgy so it really

00:23:47.320 matters if star what starmer knew and when and whether he lied about it it's not just some 0.64

00:23:52.560 little peripheral thing it could be that andy put a traitor right at the heart of government

00:24:03.060 is it kia starmer put a traitor right at the heart of government it could well be that

00:24:08.280 Against the vetting of MI6 0.51

00:24:14.320 We'll see what he says today

00:24:21.480 And we'll see what Sir Olly Robbins says tomorrow, shall we?

00:24:26.140 Right, I'll move to my backup water here

00:24:27.560 It's not a second cup of tea

00:24:28.480 It's just water in this one

00:24:29.540 Alright

00:24:32.360 Alright

00:24:33.620 Should we have a look at our poll

00:24:36.060 What our poll says today

00:24:38.140 before we move on to the websites in our poll we just asked you guys to show

00:24:43.800 I have a thousand votes will Keir Starmer survive until the general election

00:24:48.480 okay I thought the poll was going to be should he would he survive until the

00:24:56.360 local election but okay will he survive until the general election yes 27% say

00:25:01.880 yes nos have it at 57 and maybe is at 16 so it's uh it's a complete win for the no vote

00:25:10.840 but not as uh not as overwhelming a win as i might have thought i mean i would vote i would

00:25:17.960 pick no if i was taking that poll so we're largely on the same page but a significant 27

00:25:24.120 percent say yes it's interesting it's interesting i would have thought it'd be i thought it would

00:25:32.680 have been up in the 80s and 90s of you would would vote no for that not merely 57 okay

00:25:40.520 still a win still a a significant win all right that's the poll let's have a look at

00:25:46.040 the website shall we well let's have a let's check in with the price of oil first real quick

00:25:54.120 price of oil west texas 93 dollars rent 98 dollars when i looked earlier this morning

00:26:02.100 about an hour and a half ago maybe as much as two hours ago west texas was like 89 dollars a barrel

00:26:09.080 up a little bit there yeah so still under a hundred dollars well this morning as of this

00:26:15.300 moment is still of course very volatile that is the main thing that is volatile but not

00:26:21.820 astronomically expensive despite everything that's going on in the Straits of Hormuz which

00:26:28.720 is a fair amount let's have a look at that right US Navy attacks and seizes Iranian cargo ship

00:26:34.140 with peace peace talks due to take place in Pakistan even though there's no Iranian delegation

00:26:39.320 there's no peace talks there won't be peace talks I highly doubt they'll come to any sort of

00:26:43.520 agreement even though Trump and various voices out of the White House and the State Department

00:26:48.100 saying it's going well there's going to be it might well happen we might get a last minute

00:26:52.500 deal but look right there Tehran will never cede control of Straits of Hormuz

00:27:00.340 senior Iranian politician tells the BBC

00:27:02.600 and as I say these peace talks in Pakistan they're not even sending a delegation the Iranians

00:27:11.520 it's no peace talks

00:27:13.640 the cognitive dissonance a little bit

00:27:18.860 between some of the headlines

00:27:20.080 and like the reality

00:27:21.240 the headline

00:27:21.980 and then even the reporting

00:27:23.240 just below that headline

00:27:24.520 it's like

00:27:24.940 why'd you go with that headline

00:27:26.860 because that's not an accurate description

00:27:28.140 of reality at this point

00:27:29.320 with peace talks due to take place

00:27:32.480 are they?

00:27:33.520 no they're not

00:27:34.040 what peace talks?

00:27:36.660 or that there's like a 10 day ceasefire

00:27:38.220 between Israel and Lebanon

00:27:39.520 No, Israel's just kept bombing the whole time

00:27:44.240 And Hezbollah's saying

00:27:46.200 We won't accept that 0.73

00:27:47.100 We'll never back down

00:27:47.900 But yet you'll get headlines saying

00:27:51.760 There's a 10 day ceasefire

00:27:53.160 Well there just isn't

00:27:54.380 So

00:27:55.560 Alright

00:27:59.600 Yeah the Americans 0.96

00:28:01.680 They've got their blockade haven't they 0.97

00:28:03.500 Just outside the Straits of Hormuz

00:28:06.120 And they did actually

00:28:07.420 bald and iranian tanker cargo ship in fact do we even have a little bit of footage of it i think

00:28:16.580 there was wasn't there yeah let's play this i'll turn the sound off because you don't it's just

00:28:21.880 the sound of helicopters and if anyone is only listening to the bow show this morning um i don't

00:28:28.400 want to just bombard your ears with helicopter sound but if you're watching um look there's a

00:28:34.420 just a bit of footage only about 30 seconds there but actual footage of the u.s marines the marine

00:28:40.020 corps uh boarding this iranian tanker in the straits of homoos seizing it they blew a big

00:28:47.060 hole in the side of it somewhere in like the engine room or something and then um there you 0.97

00:28:51.620 go marines abseiling down onto it there you go some would say that's brilliant that's great 1.00

00:29:03.220 That's sticking it to the Iranian 1.00

00:29:04.820 The evil theocratic Iranian regime 1.00

00:29:07.000 Some say that's just piracy 0.62

00:29:08.660 That's just illegal

00:29:09.480 Intent amounts of piracy

00:29:11.160 I mean you know me

00:29:14.640 You guys know me by this point right

00:29:16.060 I'm an Anglo-American

00:29:17.320 Broadly speaking on board with the Americans 0.99

00:29:20.380 Not a fan of Islamic theocracies 0.99

00:29:23.980 So

00:29:26.720 Don't want to be accused of TDS but

00:29:29.680 It's a little bit like piracy though isn't it

00:29:33.020 as well but there you go there you go I suspect whether this thing will escalate keep escalating 0.96

00:29:48.360 now because Donald Trump said he gave they've got a ceasefire haven't they the Iranians and

00:29:52.400 Americans got a ceasefire that runs out in less than 72 hours is it like a bit over 48 hours or

00:29:58.240 Something like that now

00:29:59.020 Something in that ballpark

00:30:00.060 Before that runs out

00:30:01.320 And Trump has said again

00:30:03.240 He said the thing that

00:30:05.400 Unless Iran make a deal with him

00:30:07.400 He's going to blow up 1.00

00:30:09.340 All their power stations and bridges

00:30:10.700 That's what he's saying again

00:30:12.080 No more Mr Nice Guy

00:30:16.640 That's literally what he said

00:30:17.580 In the Truth Social post

00:30:19.560 Because over the weekend 1.00

00:30:21.760 The Iranians also fired 1.00

00:30:23.780 Or in the Straits of Formulans

00:30:24.820 Also fired on some shipping

00:30:27.220 I think there was one French ship

00:30:30.740 Or there was one UK flagged ship

00:30:32.460 And the Iranians fired at it

00:30:35.520 But only with sort of small arms fire 0.55

00:30:37.200 They didn't like blow it up with missiles and drones

00:30:41.000 They just fired at it with

00:30:42.200 I don't know exactly

00:30:44.140 But small arms fire

00:30:45.060 Trump said that wasn't very nice was it

00:30:48.040 Again literally a quote

00:30:49.360 That wasn't very nice was it

00:30:51.120 No more Mr Nice Guy

00:30:52.660 If you guys don't come to a deal

00:30:54.060 In the next like two days or so

00:30:57.220 We're going to send you back to the stone age for real

00:30:59.860 All your bridges and power plants

00:31:03.760 All that stuff

00:31:05.060 I mean

00:31:06.260 Who knows

00:31:08.320 There's that cliche isn't it

00:31:10.460 There's a meme

00:31:11.880 That taco meme that Trump always chickens out

00:31:15.000 He doesn't though does he

00:31:17.920 He has actually pulled the trigger

00:31:20.960 On a whole number of things

00:31:22.420 But at this point

00:31:24.740 For me

00:31:25.300 And I really don't want to be accused of TDS

00:31:28.160 But at this point

00:31:30.120 If he keeps

00:31:31.120 I would say after this ceasefire

00:31:33.820 Deadline runs out

00:31:35.140 If he doesn't do anything at that point

00:31:37.640 It starts to look a little bit like

00:31:39.640 Taco doesn't it

00:31:40.840 Like you've threatened what

00:31:43.460 Three or four times now

00:31:45.040 Not that I want all the power stations 0.90

00:31:48.100 And bridges in Iran to be blown up 1.00

00:31:49.800 I don't, I don't want the normal 1.00

00:31:51.580 Innocent people of Iran to suffer 1.00

00:31:52.900 So let's get that clear 1.00

00:31:54.300 But what I'm saying is

00:31:56.320 Politically

00:31:57.760 For Trump, from Trump's point of view

00:32:01.000 If this thing runs out

00:32:03.160 And he's threatened again to blow up the bridges

00:32:05.180 And power plants

00:32:06.580 And Iran just stands there irresolute 1.00

00:32:09.300 And doesn't blink

00:32:10.260 And Trump again goes

00:32:11.740 Okay I'll give you another 10 days or something

00:32:14.520 It's starting to look like

00:32:16.520 Trump chickening out at that point

00:32:19.360 For me

00:32:20.460 You can't keep threatening

00:32:23.200 How many times can you threaten people

00:32:24.680 And then they don't blink

00:32:25.960 They don't move a muscle

00:32:26.740 And you don't do the thing

00:32:27.720 You just threatened

00:32:28.280 How many times can you do that

00:32:30.080 Before you're not believed anymore

00:32:32.520 I think

00:32:36.180 To me

00:32:37.860 It looks like

00:32:38.380 This is just my analysis

00:32:39.260 It looks like Iran 0.99

00:32:41.880 Has got no intention

00:32:43.120 Of coming to the peace talk tables again

00:32:45.280 As I say

00:32:46.820 They haven't even sent a delegation

00:32:48.440 To Islamabad

00:32:49.660 so the idea that the americans and iranians will reach a deal i don't see that happening in the

00:32:57.060 next two days at all so then the ball is in mr trump's court isn't it at that point are you

00:33:03.100 going to blow up is it going to be bridge and power plant day or not and for the record to

00:33:07.820 make it perfectly clear i'd rather he didn't do that causing much much more misery to the average

00:33:13.080 person of iran however he's he's threatened to do that a bunch of times now and iran just simply

00:33:19.360 Haven't blinked

00:33:20.200 So the ball's in his court

00:33:22.600 Are you going to do it or not

00:33:23.380 And as I say

00:33:26.640 I don't think they are going to come to the table

00:33:28.560 And make a deal

00:33:29.060 So in like two days or so

00:33:31.320 Two and a half days

00:33:31.960 Whatever it is

00:33:32.840 Trump's

00:33:34.700 His hand is going to be forced

00:33:36.260 If he backs down again

00:33:38.320 And just says

00:33:39.960 Oh well we've already done regime change anyway

00:33:42.860 And we don't really need to do that

00:33:44.660 So we're not going to do it now

00:33:45.560 Or I'll give you guys another ten days or something

00:33:48.040 The creators of that taco meme

00:33:53.400 Vindicated

00:33:54.920 Alright

00:33:59.480 Alright

00:34:00.660 Let's have a look at some other stories perhaps

00:34:03.360 Shall we

00:34:04.600 Oh yes

00:34:05.880 I think in Louisiana

00:34:07.220 Some dude

00:34:08.440 Went into a place

00:34:11.740 And shot a load of children

00:34:13.300 Seven or eight children

00:34:14.520 Most of them his own children

00:34:18.040 insider trading suspicions looming over trump's presidency yeah i think i find that quite interesting

00:34:24.960 we've covered it a few times haven't we on breakfast with beau the beau show

00:34:27.260 beau's breakfast club hashtag the real bbc we covered it a number of times haven't we where

00:34:31.920 it looks like well it just is the case that some people on the inside of the trump administration

00:34:37.420 whether it's the white house itself or perhaps the state department perhaps the pentagon

00:34:40.840 Perhaps people in Israel

00:34:43.260 Who have got the inside story

00:34:45.920 On what Trump's about to do

00:34:48.180 Just start placing bets one way or another

00:34:50.600 Whether it's short or not

00:34:53.120 About what's just about to happen

00:34:56.480 And making loads of money off of it

00:34:59.300 Betting on the movement of markets and stuff

00:35:02.400 Now you know Trump's about to do something

00:35:05.540 And that's going to, or say something even

00:35:07.400 that will move markets equities markets or sort of commodities markets even currency markets perhaps

00:35:15.520 you know that's going to send the price up or down one way or another

00:35:19.160 it's good news or bad news as far as the markets are concerned

00:35:21.540 you put you start making you start making trades off the back of that

00:35:26.960 make a bit of money it's sort of undeniable something like that's going on

00:35:35.140 Look, look, trading spikes

00:35:38.200 Just before like an interview or whatever

00:35:42.740 Or just before a big truth social post

00:35:46.080 Or just before the Pentagon make a statement about something

00:35:50.040 That they've just done something

00:35:50.940 Markets, boop, off the back of that information

00:35:53.560 Markets start going crazy

00:35:54.600 But you're already in

00:35:56.740 You've already placed your bet

00:35:59.860 And surprise, surprise, it was the right bet

00:36:05.140 number of times this seems to have happened look most people in the world don't know what's just

00:36:10.360 about to happen something happens boom the markets go down whatever it is why is it in

00:36:14.140 Brent crude in this place dodgy as hell isn't it dodgy as hell more trading spikes all right you

00:36:22.620 get it what else have we got what else have we got let's have a look at there was something in

00:36:29.080 Sky News this morning I thought was interesting

00:36:31.500 Was it

00:36:32.000 Sorry the mail

00:36:35.800 Online

00:36:36.240 Mail

00:36:38.000 What was it

00:36:39.820 Oh yeah this

00:36:42.240 The quiet Welsh town

00:36:45.960 Filled with

00:36:46.760 Turkish barber shops 0.99

00:36:50.040 Turkish

00:36:51.000 A number of people come from places like

00:36:55.160 Iraq and Syria

00:36:57.020 and i just say they're turkish because it just sounds better to the british ear

00:37:01.820 oh you're from turkey are you oh that's fine turkey's all right isn't it syria sounds a bit

00:37:10.500 scary iraqi sounds a bit scary sometimes you say they're turkish it's a turkish barbershop

00:37:17.780 they're not iraqi kurds that are militant no they're turks they're turkish turkish you've

00:37:25.180 been on holiday to turkey before haven't you they were all right weren't they yeah the quiet welsh

00:37:32.580 town you mean every town i don't know why you've singled out one little welsh town every town

00:37:38.540 nearly in britain is filled with turkish barber shops where residents joke it's not a funny joke

00:37:47.040 that you never have to queue for a haircut because there are no customers yeah no customers very

00:37:52.440 rarely customers little blurb here says it comes at a time of mountain skepticism 0.99

00:37:59.120 mountain skepticism everyone that's not a traitor or a complete moron it's not skeptical about they

00:38:06.720 know exactly what it is at a time of mountain skepticism about the booming quote turkish style 0.94

00:38:12.100 quote barbers with police believing a minority a minority of them are being used as fronts for

00:38:20.340 criminal gangs now most of them i would have thought no special information but the vast

00:38:25.340 majority of them you would have thought any business that has no real customers hardly any

00:38:30.100 customers it won't be a business for very long yet there they are more and more and more of them crop

00:38:36.080 up if anything or the barbershop with no one's ever in after about a year suddenly it's a vape

00:38:41.780 shop that no one's ever in, that a minority are used as fronts for criminal gangs. Last

00:38:52.600 year hundreds of barbers were raided in an operation led by the National Crime Agency

00:38:57.800 leading to dozens of arrests for crimes ranging from money laundering and drug dealing to modern

00:39:04.680 slavery

00:39:05.280 it's a 0.96

00:39:07.740 disgusting

00:39:08.460 blight on 0.99

00:39:09.200 our country 0.93

00:39:09.680 and in

00:39:10.040 Bowes

00:39:10.280 Britain 0.97

00:39:10.580 it would 1.00

00:39:11.660 be one

00:39:11.960 of the

00:39:12.180 things I

00:39:12.540 would go

00:39:12.860 to war 0.98

00:39:13.460 with them 1.00

00:39:14.020 I would

00:39:15.640 spend large

00:39:16.740 amounts of

00:39:17.260 resources

00:39:17.660 time and

00:39:18.200 energy and

00:39:18.580 political

00:39:18.900 capital

00:39:19.300 on ridding

00:39:21.100 our country

00:39:21.800 of all

00:39:22.580 of this

00:39:23.000 the actual

00:39:23.960 physical

00:39:24.260 things and

00:39:25.180 the people

00:39:25.660 behind it

00:39:26.180 go to

00:39:26.540 war with 0.98

00:39:26.960 them 0.97

00:39:27.160 they're

00:39:30.440 nearly all

00:39:31.300 gangsters

00:39:32.860 and criminals

00:39:33.300 And they're nearly all fronts for money laundering

00:39:37.420 Drug dealing

00:39:38.140 And modern slavery

00:39:39.520 Or people trafficking

00:39:41.440 A terrible, terrible, terrible 0.98

00:39:44.460 Disgusting blight 0.99

00:39:45.820 On our nation 1.00

00:39:47.420 Sickening 0.95

00:39:49.720 You're expected to walk past 0.74

00:39:52.220 Like a high street like that

00:39:53.400 You might have one after another after another

00:39:54.860 You have a barber shop 0.79

00:39:58.540 Some crappy chicken shop

00:40:01.180 A vape shop 1.00

00:40:02.620 A sweep shop, another vape shop, another Turkish barbers 0.99

00:40:05.580 The high street is just that 1.00

00:40:07.400 And we're supposed to believe

00:40:11.520 That it's real

00:40:12.620 We're supposed to just get over it, just walk past it, ignore it

00:40:15.140 Don't worry about it

00:40:16.580 The amount of organised crime in this country

00:40:21.360 Is staggering

00:40:22.220 These fake shops

00:40:25.320 It's

00:40:27.720 Honestly, it's heartbreaking

00:40:29.640 It really is

00:40:32.620 Meanwhile, normal people trying to start a business from scratch

00:40:37.220 Can barely even dream of starting it

00:40:42.300 Because the red tape and the taxes

00:40:44.540 Are too much

00:40:48.780 It's just too much

00:40:49.880 You'd need a fair amount of money just to start a business

00:40:53.220 You wanted to start a shop, a little shop

00:40:55.340 Of whatever it is

00:40:56.740 You'd need quite a lot of money

00:40:59.020 To just get it off the ground

00:41:01.260 of course these people how can they afford that how can these people that are straight over from

00:41:07.660 turkey or wherever seriously right how can they afford to do all that even and keep it going even

00:41:16.520 though no one ever goes in there and have a tricked out bmw or mustadies with tinted out

00:41:20.760 windows sitting out front how can they afford that because it's a front for organized crime

00:41:28.380 And they're making loads of money out of money laundering

00:41:30.500 Or drug dealing or people smuggling

00:41:32.360 People trafficking

00:41:34.360 Modern slavery

00:41:35.780 And the police will very occasionally

00:41:40.440 Very occasionally do

00:41:41.780 A half-arsed, weak-wristed effort

00:41:44.740 Token effort

00:41:45.540 To crack down on a few of them

00:41:47.280 Here or there

00:41:47.820 Not acceptable

00:41:52.180 Not acceptable

00:41:53.020 In Bose, Britain

00:41:55.280 That would be right near the top of the agenda

00:41:57.320 Stamp all of that out 0.97

00:42:01.360 Get rid of them

00:42:04.140 Clear them out

00:42:05.300 Get every last one of them 0.95

00:42:08.200 Deport them 1.00

00:42:09.120 Get them out of these islands 0.98

00:42:11.760 A cancer 0.98

00:42:14.400 It's a cancer

00:42:15.780 Britain's got cancer 0.82

00:42:19.480 And it's these fake fronts

00:42:23.480 That are to do with crime

00:42:26.800 Ah

00:42:28.720 Revolting

00:42:31.480 Okay

00:42:34.240 Let's have a look

00:42:37.680 There was a story in the sun I thought was interesting

00:42:39.540 Okay well this is what I was talking about

00:42:40.860 Back to the Iran thing for a moment

00:42:42.280 You know if

00:42:44.700 If Iran won't make a deal 0.77

00:42:50.980 With the Donald

00:42:52.520 Then the ball is back in his court as I said

00:42:56.540 so what so what's he going to do will blowing up a bunch of power stations and bridges will that

00:43:05.920 get the regime changed i would suspect not it's extremely resilient isn't it that that regime

00:43:15.020 extremely um so well this story in the sun says more shock more awe that's a reference to the

00:43:25.560 2003 iraq invasion where donald rumsfeld rummy over at the pentagon said their attack on iraq will

00:43:33.540 will be shock and awe so there you go more shock and more awe trump quote needs iraq style mass

00:43:41.880 invasion plan to topple iran's regime end quote well it looks like it doesn't it anything short

00:43:48.940 of you know massed infantry or cavalry armored cavalry divisions sweeping across the plains of

00:43:57.860 persia rooting out all the last sort of strongholds in the mountains in the zagros mountains or

00:44:04.300 whatever anything short of that i feel like maybe probably won't be enough i mean could be proved

00:44:11.560 wrong i've said this a number of times we could wake up any given morning or any given afternoon

00:44:15.200 You suddenly get word coming through the wire

00:44:17.480 On Twitter or whatever

00:44:19.320 That the regime is collapsing or has collapsed

00:44:21.540 That could happen at any moment, couldn't it?

00:44:24.540 Looking less and less likely though, isn't it?

00:44:26.480 It does look like

00:44:27.300 If I had to put money on it one way or another

00:44:28.680 If it's a binary choice 0.99

00:44:29.720 That it would take a full Iraq style invasion 0.93

00:44:33.140 To change that regime 0.97

00:44:34.080 And then of course

00:44:36.240 Then what?

00:44:38.880 Who comes next? 0.98

00:44:41.200 The Americans will just 1.00

00:44:42.300 Control it like Iraq 1.00

00:44:44.380 Someone like Paul Bremer in charge 1.00

00:44:45.740 Or some US diplomat person

00:44:49.420 Or put a US general, David Petraeus

00:44:51.480 They wouldn't do him now, he's old and retired

00:44:54.440 But the equivalent, the modern day, the 2026 equivalent

00:44:57.420 Put him in charge 0.98

00:44:58.920 Or make the Iranians have their own political leadership 1.00

00:45:05.100 Like what they've done in Venezuela 0.98

00:45:06.440 Let mostly the political leadership that was already there continue

00:45:10.560 Who knows, who knows

00:45:13.600 it's a quagmire now isn't it the iran question is now a quagmire for the united states and

00:45:21.320 donald trump seems at this point anyway on the morning of monday the 20th there's no clear to me

00:45:27.680 there's no clear clean off ramp for the donald he wants to talk to them in islamabad and they're

00:45:33.660 like no we don't want to and we feel like we don't need to no you can poke your peace talks in 0.80

00:45:42.340 Islamabad

00:45:42.920 Your move

00:45:46.400 Donald

00:45:47.620 I mean it's

00:45:50.260 From their point of view

00:45:51.560 It's sort of crazy

00:45:52.440 Isn't it

00:45:52.800 I think

00:45:53.300 Well they'll be left

00:45:57.240 Ruling over a country

00:45:58.180 Completely in rubble

00:45:59.240 Then won't they

00:45:59.820 I suspect

00:46:03.060 Trump

00:46:04.200 Has got

00:46:05.480 The will

00:46:06.220 To

00:46:07.320 Say to

00:46:08.140 Hegseth

00:46:08.680 Alright do it then

00:46:10.140 Yeah

00:46:10.600 Blow up their

00:46:11.460 Power stations

00:46:12.100 and bridges go the idea that trump always chickens out he doesn't always does he 0.53

00:46:17.460 well from always i don't i think he has got the balls the stomach the chutzpah

00:46:25.960 to let exit do that

00:46:29.440 we'll see over the next two and a half days it may be by wednesday or thursday i'm reporting to you

00:46:36.360 yep the u.s military is blowing up is in the process of blowing up all the power stations

00:46:41.640 and bridges okay all right should we have a look at on this day in history you guys like that

00:46:53.860 segment i like doing that have a quick look down through the centuries on this day the 20th of

00:46:59.180 april what happened of note all right oh there's a good one straight away for any english fans

00:47:04.840 The round table tournament

00:47:07.800 Held in

00:47:08.520 On this day

00:47:09.340 In 1290

00:47:10.260 Like 13th century

00:47:13.080 Held near Winchester

00:47:15.040 Dan Tubbs lives in Winchester

00:47:16.740 Doesn't he

00:47:17.320 Lovely

00:47:18.120 Lovely place

00:47:18.900 Winchester

00:47:19.340 In imitation of King Arthur

00:47:22.740 To commemorate

00:47:23.660 A betrothal

00:47:24.300 Of one of

00:47:25.100 Edward I's daughters

00:47:26.200 Okay

00:47:27.160 So there's this thing

00:47:28.580 Edward I

00:47:31.500 Edward Longshanks 0.66

00:47:32.540 That is Longshanks

00:47:33.540 Edward Plantagenet

00:47:34.960 He had this giant table made

00:47:36.560 It's like massive

00:47:37.560 It weighs two ton or something

00:47:39.080 And it's like 18 foot across

00:47:40.200 Or whatever

00:47:40.460 This table, that's what that picture is

00:47:42.180 In sort of in memory of King Arthur

00:47:48.300 King Arthur was supposed to have

00:47:52.400 Lived in like the 5th century

00:47:55.320 Or 6th century

00:47:57.580 On epochs, Harry

00:47:59.880 on epochs i've got long-form content all about king arthur in conversation with uh elizabeth

00:48:09.860 haverin actually um talking all about king arthur you want a bit of long-form content you want me

00:48:15.960 an hour or two or whatever it was talking about the arthurian legend like jeffrey of monmouth

00:48:21.400 christian de trois mallory everything to do with arthur oh it's there it's behind the paywalls

00:48:27.360 That's £5 a month, OTC.com

00:48:28.940 Do consider signing up

00:48:30.180 But so by the 13th century

00:48:34.200 The age of Edward I

00:48:35.420 Arthur is already

00:48:37.420 A thing of myth

00:48:39.140 A thing of legend

00:48:40.280 It's already like something in the past

00:48:42.820 That you'd hark back to

00:48:44.100 By the 13th century

00:48:46.720 And that's what Edward did

00:48:47.880 Edward I seemed to have loved the Arthurian legend

00:48:50.680 Thought of himself as a modern day Arthur

00:48:53.280 So he had this thing built

00:48:55.520 And it still exists

00:48:56.700 It's physically still there

00:48:57.820 You can go and see it physically if you want to

00:49:00.380 It's on the wall

00:49:01.680 Massive, obviously

00:49:03.140 18 foot across

00:49:04.400 I think it's in Winchester Castle

00:49:07.660 Or Winchester Cathedral

00:49:08.940 Anyway, it still physically exists

00:49:11.880 And you can go and see it

00:49:12.560 A remarkable thing

00:49:13.400 Fantastic thing

00:49:14.500 Lovely

00:49:15.880 Love it

00:49:17.220 Okay, on this day in 1862

00:49:19.260 First pasteurisation test is completed by Louis Pasteur

00:49:22.780 And Claude Bernard

00:49:24.320 Yeah, very important

00:49:27.400 Louis Pasteur

00:49:28.200 You know, the history of medicine and things

00:49:30.660 Yep, important

00:49:35.560 Important stuff

00:49:36.660 Lots of people's lives have been saved

00:49:39.140 By the work of Louis Pasteur

00:49:40.740 On this day, 1902

00:49:42.860 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound

00:49:46.040 Radium chloride

00:49:47.080 Also, interesting

00:49:49.860 In the history of science

00:49:51.380 Pierre Curie died quite quickly

00:49:54.100 didn't he of radiation poisoning

00:49:55.620 now you can use it for x-rays and things or at the time they thought radium was like some sort

00:50:04.240 of wonder material and you could use it in everything to put it in paint and make the

00:50:08.440 paint luminous you can make loads of things that you have radium tablets it's good for you good

00:50:14.840 for what ails you in the early 20th century they made loads and loads of products with radium in

00:50:21.540 some a lot more radioactive than others anyway here curie died and well mary curie in the end

00:50:31.460 died many years quite a few years after him of not exactly radiation poisoning but

00:50:37.560 of complications of ill health that was almost certainly to do with being exposed to radiation

00:50:44.560 okay fascinating interesting on this day 1968 british politician enoch powell

00:50:51.040 Makes his controversial rivers of blood speech

00:50:53.340 It's not actually that controversial

00:50:54.800 Unless you're a lefty

00:50:55.680 Perfectly reasonable what he said in that

00:50:58.680 Perfectly reasonable

00:50:59.880 On my channel with Mr H Reviews

00:51:02.780 Called The State of Politics

00:51:04.060 We've got a long form bit of content there

00:51:06.860 All about the life and career of Enoch Powell

00:51:08.780 Was it like 40, 45 minutes

00:51:10.920 An hour long, I can't remember

00:51:11.880 A fairly long conversation

00:51:14.000 All about Enoch Powell, his life

00:51:15.680 All his early life

00:51:18.160 And when he fought in North Africa

00:51:19.620 Against the Nazis in North Africa

00:51:21.440 And then his political career after that

00:51:25.280 What he was saying

00:51:27.740 In that Rivers of Blood speech 1.00

00:51:30.700 Is perfectly reasonable

00:51:32.980 And in fact

00:51:33.820 We now live in a world

00:51:35.760 Literally far worse than what he described

00:51:39.000 Rivers of Blood

00:51:44.000 What like the Manchester Arena bombing

00:51:48.600 Like 7-7

00:51:50.480 Those rivers of blood you're talking about

00:51:53.140 Like at South Pole

00:51:57.800 He undersold how bad it would, could get

00:52:05.720 If anything

00:52:06.360 Enoch Powell was a great man

00:52:08.160 He was a man of vision

00:52:09.140 And genius

00:52:10.400 He was a genius

00:52:11.600 Quite literally

00:52:13.580 He was one of the youngest professors ever

00:52:18.600 He was a great man, Enoch Powell.

00:52:23.020 Don't buy the lie, the revisionism from whoever,

00:52:26.340 some lefty traitor commie, 0.79

00:52:28.420 a politics Joe or something, 0.97

00:52:30.700 a dire habit or something, 0.98

00:52:32.700 that he was evil and wrong-headed and racist and stuff. 0.84

00:52:36.020 No.

00:52:36.680 He was a man of great vision.

00:52:40.600 Cassandra, doomed not to be listened to properly

00:52:43.060 in his own lifetime.

00:52:46.720 On this day in 1980,

00:52:48.600 Climax of the Berber Spring in Algeria

00:52:50.800 Sees hundreds of Berber political activists arrested 1.00

00:52:53.120 Yeah, so that's much more interesting 1.00

00:52:56.260 If you're a French person

00:52:58.940 The long saga of France and Algeria

00:53:03.360 Can't get into it here

00:53:06.180 But it's a long story, a long saga

00:53:11.000 Okay, on this day in 1999

00:53:12.740 Columbine high school massacre

00:53:14.220 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

00:53:16.300 Killed 13 people and injured 24 others

00:53:18.280 Before committing suicide at Columbine High School, Colorado

00:53:21.180 Again, it's one of those things

00:53:22.640 I've read a lot about since

00:53:26.120 For some reason, got a bit fascinated with it years ago

00:53:28.560 There's that film

00:53:29.840 Is it Gus Van Sant film?

00:53:31.860 Elephant

00:53:32.300 In that he seems to argue

00:53:35.140 Or tries to make the argument

00:53:36.060 That they were in some sort of gay love pact

00:53:38.180 On top of everything else

00:53:39.100 Eric and Dylan

00:53:40.520 I don't think that's the case

00:53:41.880 No one really knows

00:53:42.480 But I don't think that's the case

00:53:43.740 But anyway

00:53:44.160 And there's bowling for Columbine, isn't there? 0.98

00:53:47.180 That fat dude 0.94

00:53:48.740 I can't remember his name even

00:53:49.680 But the real

00:53:51.560 The real events of that

00:53:53.080 And as much as we can glean

00:53:54.400 About Eric and Dylan

00:53:55.900 In real life

00:53:57.020 I find that interesting

00:53:58.040 Yeah it's one of those things

00:54:01.200 Where it's

00:54:02.080 You know 13 people

00:54:04.400 Isn't a giant

00:54:05.860 Giant

00:54:06.540 Kill count

00:54:08.340 But it was a seminal one

00:54:11.740 The Columbine High School Massacre

00:54:14.740 Just one of many many 0.82

00:54:16.180 High school massacres right

00:54:17.100 Or massacres in general

00:54:17.920 Mass shooting events

00:54:18.720 One of thousands really

00:54:20.160 But

00:54:20.720 That one was seminal

00:54:22.500 It felt seminal

00:54:23.280 It was in all sorts of

00:54:24.380 Michael Moore

00:54:25.760 Some of the chats say

00:54:26.620 Michael Moore 0.97

00:54:26.960 That fat dude 0.97

00:54:27.680 Michael Moore 0.97

00:54:28.480 Yeah 1.00

00:54:29.000 Disgusting leftist 1.00

00:54:32.160 Crazy man really 1.00

00:54:33.280 But 0.94

00:54:33.500 Yeah

00:54:36.520 Before and after Columbine

00:54:38.540 It's like

00:54:38.920 Before and after 9-11

00:54:41.160 It seemed

00:54:41.660 It seemed like

00:54:42.740 A nicer world

00:54:46.700 A less violent world

00:54:48.280 It seemed like

00:54:49.080 Before Columbine

00:54:51.280 Before 9-11

00:54:52.260 And after it

00:54:53.460 You're in a darker phase

00:54:55.400 It felt like

00:54:56.820 I mean

00:54:57.100 It was a horrible one

00:54:59.720 Really horrible one

00:55:00.760 Alright

00:55:01.020 On this day in 2010

00:55:02.540 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes

00:55:04.880 Killing 11 and causing the rig to sink

00:55:06.760 Causing a massive oil discharge

00:55:09.260 Into the Gulf of Mexico

00:55:10.380 And an environmental disaster

00:55:12.480 Again Harry

00:55:13.300 2010 you would still

00:55:14.460 Again you would have just been

00:55:15.500 A little tiny little kid

00:55:16.700 Seems like yesterday to me

00:55:18.260 It seems like yesterday to me

00:55:20.600 Sorry

00:55:20.780 Yeah yeah

00:55:22.080 No I would have been five

00:55:22.940 Right okay yeah

00:55:24.600 Oh god

00:55:26.140 I feel old yet

00:55:27.040 Yeah

00:55:29.240 It was really bad wasn't it

00:55:30.920 And it was BP wasn't it

00:55:32.040 Like that oil rig was BP

00:55:33.600 British Petroleum right

00:55:34.780 Deepwater Horizon

00:55:36.320 They couldn't cap it for ages

00:55:38.380 And it just spilled loads and loads of oil

00:55:42.220 Crude oil

00:55:42.760 Into the Gulf of Mexico

00:55:44.000 it's a bad one although it does seem that the world the earth itself recovers quickly from

00:55:54.400 these sorts of things because it could have been a natural thing right it could have been a

00:55:57.520 an earthquake let's just imagine just for a moment it was just an earthquake that ruptured

00:56:02.920 the crust slightly and loads of crude or loads of whatever seeps up from under the seabed

00:56:10.420 like that has happened millions of times throughout geological time and the earth and the oceans are

00:56:18.160 sort of used to it they clean themselves in a sense as much as that's very low resolution but

00:56:23.200 in a way for some people say environmentalists say oh the oil spill for example in the deep

00:56:28.640 water horizon that will be there for hundreds and hundreds of years all the wildlife will suffer

00:56:34.480 and be killed for hundreds and hundreds of years going forward now no no no the earth finds a way

00:56:41.360 it sort of clears itself up relatively quickly not that it's a good thing not that i'm trying to

00:56:47.280 run defense on behalf of bp and the people that made mistakes at the deep water horizon drilling

00:56:52.660 rig anyway i remember that like it's not long ago at all it's like over 15 years ago god feel old

00:56:59.960 Alright, on this day in 2024

00:57:01.820 US passes a bipartisan

00:57:03.720 A bipartisan bill

00:57:06.720 Of 95 billion dollars

00:57:09.080 Foreign aid package

00:57:10.500 For Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

00:57:13.340 And a bill against TikTok

00:57:15.600 95 billion pounds 0.92

00:57:18.140 For Ukraine to embezzle

00:57:19.840 And Israel to spend on arms and armaments 0.55

00:57:23.620 And Taiwan 0.91

00:57:25.200 Because America 0.52

00:57:27.040 It was absolutely committed to

00:57:29.760 protecting taiwan and israel and now throw ukraine on there as well

00:57:37.280 good

00:57:41.840 doesn't really seem in the interests of the average american person

00:57:49.440 okay all right let's have a look at our rubber rants and super chants

00:57:55.520 shall we let's do that let's do this with my mic so i can see all right global church history in

00:58:02.240 at number one and still raining defending number one still at number one the fifth week in a row

00:58:12.680 all right global church history says on this day in 1233 pope gregory the ninth founded the

00:58:18.160 inquisition bill via the ball illicit ad copidios copedion capiendos nobody expects the inquisition

00:58:28.940 do they and jacques cartier began an explorational expedition jacques cartier so he's uh canada

00:58:38.740 isn't it that's all like the gulf of st lawrence isn't it the st lawrence river some canada the

00:58:45.180 French, the French exploring Canada and Newfoundland all around there, all in there, because once

00:58:53.620 they found the new world, once Chris Columbus had shown that there definitely is giant land 0.99

00:58:59.280 masses on the other side of the Atlantic, it's game on, it's a race, largely what, Dutch, 0.98

00:59:09.400 English 0.99

00:59:11.020 French

00:59:12.160 Spanish and Portuguese 1.00

00:59:13.400 They all want to take as much of it as they possibly can 1.00

00:59:16.620 The French went more northerly 1.00

00:59:18.680 The more northerly route 1.00

00:59:19.680 Well there's the

00:59:22.260 Treaty of

00:59:23.460 Los Torredos or something

00:59:25.660 I can't remember the name

00:59:26.340 Where the Pope had said the Spanish and the Portuguese

00:59:29.380 Could carve the New World up between them 1.00

00:59:31.980 Just them 1.00

00:59:33.200 Just the Spanish and the Portuguese 1.00

00:59:34.160 People like the Dutch and the French and the English 1.00

00:59:37.280 Are like 0.98

00:59:37.620 Especially the Dutch and the English who are Protestant 0.65

00:59:40.840 We don't have to do

00:59:42.540 We're not interested in what the Pope says

00:59:44.240 We'll do what we want, we'll sell where we want, thanks 1.00

00:59:46.480 Anyway, the French 1.00

00:59:49.080 Went more north, more Canada 0.55

00:59:52.000 To this day you've still got French-speaking Canadians, haven't you? 1.00

00:59:55.660 Oh, on Epochs 1.00

00:59:56.500 Sorry, sorry

00:59:59.960 You think I haven't got like

01:00:03.040 10, 12, 15 hours of content

01:00:06.160 talking about that sort of thing largely focusing on magellan the exploration of the new world and

01:00:14.700 stuff who do you think you're dealing with come on of course that's there behind the paywall for

01:00:22.700 as little as uh five pound a month okay 14 barber morning mate how you doing morning sir 14 barber

01:00:29.320 says oh you say you say morning mate good weekend question mark yeah it was good thanks yeah it's

01:00:34.640 fine I had a little bit of free time on Sunday really should have worked on my novel and instead

01:00:40.300 spent a lot of it playing Civ IV I need some downtime I do actually work reasonably hard

01:00:49.840 quite long hours nearly a week need to do more writing on my novel though badly but it's a good

01:00:56.900 weekend no it's fine it's all good you say the Cardiff Devils won the title in ice hockey I don't

01:01:03.320 know about ice hockey i really don't follow ice hockey whatsoever particularly british ice hockey

01:01:09.880 the cardiff devils okay never heard of them i know there's the rumford raiders i used to live

01:01:18.300 near rumford for years and years they've got an ice hockey team isn't the rumford raiders okay

01:01:22.440 cardiff are the best ice hockey team at the moment in the uk who knew but you say i'm very pleased

01:01:28.200 you put horrendous dead at nurburgring i don't know about that either

01:01:35.560 it's news to me i'll have to google that as soon as i get off horrendous dead uh at nurburgring

01:01:41.940 what the the racetrack there was a big crash was there a terrorist event i've literally got no

01:01:49.080 idea in fact harry would you mind just quickly googling that and i'll come back to you in a

01:01:52.940 moment yeah what happened at the nurberg ring okay and then you put here on the way out but

01:01:59.680 the next p.m might be worse imagine that yeah might have to put with the interim david lammy

01:02:04.740 lammy is my kang will be over the moon with that one

01:02:07.640 who would be prime minister next might be angela rayner or yvette cooper

01:02:16.000 Wes Streeting 0.51

01:02:18.400 Prime Minister Streeting

01:02:20.080 Imagine that

01:02:20.720 The first openly gay Prime Minister

01:02:23.600 Although Ted Heath

01:02:25.740 Okay let's move on

01:02:30.900 The next rumble rant is from

01:02:33.020 JC Warlock

01:02:34.460 JC Warlock says

01:02:35.300 You ever see that the Loch Ness Monster

01:02:38.820 Is actually the Castle Fort George

01:02:41.380 I don't know about that

01:02:43.800 I don't believe in the Loch Ness Monster

01:02:44.800 Anyway

01:02:46.000 The famous picture from like the 20s or the 30s

01:02:49.960 Was proven to be a fake wasn't it

01:02:51.440 And

01:02:52.640 It might be but it's just unlikely isn't it

01:02:55.480 That

01:02:55.720 Like

01:02:57.600 One

01:02:58.960 Specimen or one

01:03:00.540 One family

01:03:01.520 Of

01:03:02.520 Like prehistoric

01:03:04.400 Dinosaur era

01:03:05.580 Creatures would survive in that lock

01:03:07.520 Doesn't

01:03:09.960 That's not how it works right 0.56

01:03:10.980 You need at least a few different families 1.00

01:03:13.000 You'd need a 0.58

01:03:13.840 A small number

01:03:14.920 A few

01:03:15.280 if like a dozen or more for it to i just don't think the lock nest monster is real but i don't

01:03:19.360 know what you're talking about there castle fort george the lock nest monster is actually the

01:03:24.000 castle fort george i don't know about that it's interesting though maybe i'll google that later

01:03:28.940 to see exactly what you mean um you said it's the shape of a dragon's head the dragon is the

01:03:34.640 one saint george killed for the church the dragon being scottish flag okay interesting

01:03:40.500 i'm not sure exactly about all of that but there you go i'm not a Loch Ness monster believer bring

01:03:48.080 me like a lot of things bring me evidence bring me slam dunk evidence where zoologists and

01:03:52.560 scientists can you've actually got a specimen there 100% real it's right there sure okay then

01:03:59.320 i'm on board until such times okay and then rick twgp not that you're arguing for it you're saying

01:04:07.800 it something else right it's the okay rick twgp says um in case you're not going to say adolf hitler

01:04:17.980 was born today in 1889 okay there you go adolf hitler was born on this day in 1889 i was actually

01:04:27.540 listening to an audio book over the weekend a bit whilst playing civ 4 that was um a deep dive into

01:04:34.520 Hitler's life

01:04:35.200 And the 1.00

01:04:36.580 A load of it

01:04:37.740 Like the first

01:04:38.340 Hour or two

01:04:39.640 Of this audio book

01:04:40.420 Was just talking about

01:04:41.140 Hitler's dad

01:04:42.080 Mum and dad

01:04:42.660 And their lives

01:04:45.360 It was very interesting

01:04:47.800 And the household 1.00

01:04:48.420 In which Hitler 0.99

01:04:49.100 Was born into 0.98

01:04:49.740 And grew up into

01:04:50.420 His half brothers

01:04:51.060 And sisters

01:04:51.500 And his father's

01:04:53.360 Previous wives

01:04:54.260 And the dynamic

01:04:55.920 He had a half older

01:04:56.800 Brother who ran away

01:04:57.540 From home

01:04:58.020 And the ire of

01:04:59.340 The strict dad

01:05:00.100 Turned on young Hitler

01:05:01.300 And himself 0.69

01:05:01.560 Also

01:05:01.880 Interesting

01:05:02.900 Fascinating

01:05:03.560 The adult you turn into

01:05:08.820 In most ways

01:05:10.460 Is a reflection of your childhood isn't it

01:05:13.160 I think if you really want to understand someone

01:05:18.860 From history, whoever it is 0.97

01:05:20.160 If you really want to understand them

01:05:22.600 Eventually you have to look at their childhood a bit

01:05:24.260 That's why on

01:05:25.160 History Bro

01:05:27.180 I did a long long form

01:05:28.980 Of content, many many many videos

01:05:31.600 All long form about the childhood of

01:05:33.480 starling very very brutal upbringing starling had very very brutal um his father a complete psycho 0.64

01:05:42.880 crazy baso anyway you really want to know get inside some try to get inside some even attempt

01:05:49.880 a bit of armchair psychology you've got to know some of the details about their childhood right

01:05:53.460 so okay another one just quickly popped here another two quickly just popped in for rumble

01:05:58.780 let's read them uh jc warlock says that deep water horizon disaster was predicted by the movie

01:06:05.100 the knowing not seen that movie uh which was a movie about predicting disasters with nicholas

01:06:10.700 cage the loch ness monster was an icon of scottish heritages i've not seen that movie with nicholas

01:06:17.580 cage i'm afraid but it sounds interesting maybe i'll check it out one day probably won't

01:06:21.980 might do that the knowing might be a good movie that'd be a good movie and then one other one

01:06:30.000 again from jc warlock says was pointed out by a youtuber called dutch since

01:06:37.360 who predicts earthquakes lol okay okay dutch since all right should we do the youtube super chats

01:06:49.040 Harry you have to make that come up on my screen for me

01:06:50.980 Make it so engaged

01:06:53.040 There it is, thank you, thank you sir

01:06:54.480 Alright, for you today

01:06:55.660 We've got

01:06:58.140 Something 1.00

01:07:00.100 Something Wickedly, which is Shona

01:07:02.020 Fan of the show and State of Politics

01:07:03.920 You put

01:07:05.660 Storm of the rat mushroom

01:07:08.400 Kept in the dark, I write

01:07:10.480 Alright this is like a 0.97

01:07:12.920 Fungus of a man 0.97

01:07:14.420 A boring 0.98

01:07:18.040 Slow

01:07:19.400 Fungus

01:07:21.680 It was kept in the dark

01:07:25.000 About

01:07:26.220 Maddy

01:07:27.380 Like a mushroom

01:07:30.040 Thanks for the super chat

01:07:30.740 Opening doors one says

01:07:32.480 Is a ham sandwich a snack or a meal

01:07:35.460 Well it's not a meal to me

01:07:37.880 I'll put that much more in the realm of a snack

01:07:41.220 Imagine if you hadn't eaten all day

01:07:44.000 Imagine you had some breakfast

01:07:45.440 But you hadn't eaten all day until the evening

01:07:47.320 your dinner time 7 6 7 8 p.m you're you're starving and you get served a ham sandwich

01:07:55.380 you bet that's not that's not a meal come on i would call it a snack myself all right

01:08:02.560 thomas tyne says been listening from oregon yes oregon go ducks

01:08:09.160 Go Ducks

01:08:12.140 Oregon, lovely

01:08:13.760 A lot of my family from

01:08:16.400 It's where my dad was born and raised

01:08:17.860 On Monday mornings

01:08:20.080 For a few weeks now

01:08:21.680 Libertarian leading

01:08:23.180 Nice

01:08:24.300 Unhappy with both major parties

01:08:26.380 Sure, good

01:08:27.280 We can commiserate

01:08:33.080 Probably

01:08:34.220 Yeah

01:08:35.860 A lot of Western countries

01:08:37.380 Facing the same sorts of things

01:08:38.540 nearly all the parties are a part of the uni party thing right

01:08:43.300 that's why hopefully hopefully Rupert Lowe and Restore will be something genuinely different 0.87

01:08:52.200 aim high vote low minions must go from zoomers to boomers hopefully Rupert Lowe 0.95

01:08:58.940 the proof of the pudding is actually when you're in government how you behave in government

01:09:03.300 but i've got faith i believe that rupert lowe isn't captured by the wef and the uni party

01:09:11.000 and various other cabals and influences i genuinely believe that i know for a fact that

01:09:17.840 a lot of people around him aren't i know for a fact

01:09:19.840 hopefully rupert will be different hopefully in america you can get after trump you might get

01:09:27.240 someone who's who will really really drain the swamp yeah we're in the same boat in many ways

01:09:34.460 okay principled uncertainty says is there something akin to a super injunction concerning the starma

01:09:41.500 arsonist trial next week at any other time this would be the story of the century for the tabloids

01:09:47.880 very suspicious it is very suspicious isn't it the ukrainian arsonists who set fire to

01:09:55.800 Keir Starmer's car

01:09:57.140 and the front door of a flat

01:09:58.100 he used to live in

01:09:58.960 and I think a couple of other things

01:10:00.180 how the mainstream corporate

01:10:02.260 legacy mainstream media

01:10:03.200 just lie about it

01:10:04.320 by omission

01:10:04.980 every single day

01:10:06.520 more or less

01:10:07.120 just don't talk about it

01:10:08.420 nope

01:10:09.080 don't talk about

01:10:11.320 what's going on in Ireland

01:10:12.200 or Epson

01:10:12.740 or those Ukrainian arsonists 0.86

01:10:14.780 or Ehud Barak

01:10:17.400 just don't mention it

01:10:19.960 guys

01:10:20.480 remember

01:10:20.980 yep

01:10:21.680 got it

01:10:22.200 it's very suspicious isn't it

01:10:24.460 when their trial comes up

01:10:25.780 soon is it next month or in a few weeks as you said um i'll be fascinated to see what comes out

01:10:30.880 in open court about that because they've pleaded innocent which means there will be a defense and

01:10:35.240 a prosecution and cross-examination and stuff and hopefully loads of details will come out

01:10:39.040 unless at the last moment they changed their plea to guilty and the court just goes okay you're

01:10:43.080 guilty got it yeah and your sentences and boom end story and you don't get all the details but

01:10:49.240 if that happens that in and of itself is highly suspicious isn't it at the moment i believe

01:10:54.840 They've pleaded innocent

01:10:56.100 Which means

01:10:57.200 We'll get all sorts of details

01:10:59.660 I'm fascinated to see

01:11:02.320 How that plays out

01:11:03.380 But principled uncertainty

01:11:05.460 Just says

01:11:06.320 Is there a super injunction

01:11:07.540 I don't know

01:11:08.040 I don't think so

01:11:08.900 Like a de-order

01:11:09.720 De-notice

01:11:10.400 Or whatever

01:11:10.680 Where the papers aren't allowed

01:11:11.720 To report on it

01:11:13.380 I don't know

01:11:13.840 But

01:11:15.540 You have said there

01:11:16.860 It's very suspicious

01:11:17.620 And I couldn't agree more

01:11:18.860 It's highly suspicious

01:11:21.220 Everything about that

01:11:22.420 Stinks to high heaven

01:11:23.420 Doesn't it

01:11:24.840 who are they who are they exactly what motivate what motivated them to do those arson attacks

01:11:31.240 exactly

01:11:32.120 all right mr dicky bingo however this morning good sir not dinky bingo mr dicky bingo

01:11:40.580 says starman makes no decisions and is directed yeah i would have thought so yeah

01:11:45.080 there's people above him aren't there whoever they are telling him what to do and what not to do

01:11:49.280 Yeah

01:11:52.780 It feels that way doesn't it

01:11:56.080 Something wickedly again Shona says

01:11:59.560 Gerrymandering jiggery-pokery

01:12:02.020 Yeah

01:12:02.500 Not sure 100% what that's in reference to

01:12:07.600 But it could be a number of things we've talked about this morning 0.65

01:12:09.480 Jiggery-pokery is a good word 1.00

01:12:13.260 Gerrymandering is a good word 1.00

01:12:14.540 Gerrymandering jiggery-pokery skullduggery

01:12:18.440 okay and shona again says glowing the dark tattoos have formaldehyde in oh god probably don't get

01:12:27.800 those if you can i know you've got loads of tattoos haven't you shona but i haven't got any

01:12:32.940 tattoos i haven't got a single one i shan't now when i was a kid in the 80s and 90s it wasn't the

01:12:40.520 case that everyone would get tattoos harry have you got tattoos i do yeah how many just roughly

01:12:45.440 Have you got loads

01:12:46.280 Or just one or two

01:12:46.840 Four 0.58

01:12:47.200 Four

01:12:47.900 There you go

01:12:49.240 It's fashionable nowadays isn't it 1.00

01:12:50.920 Zoomers 1.00

01:12:51.320 Get all loads of tats 1.00

01:12:52.200 Get a whole sleeve done

01:12:53.300 Get your back or chest covered

01:12:54.660 When I was a kid

01:12:55.760 Normal people didn't do that 0.98

01:12:58.080 If he was like in a biker gang perhaps 0.99

01:12:59.780 If he was in the Royal Navy 0.67

01:13:01.880 He was like a

01:13:04.060 Yeah

01:13:05.360 The average person

01:13:06.640 Just would not get loads of tattoos

01:13:08.240 When I was growing up

01:13:10.300 You got formaldehyde in it

01:13:13.400 To make it glow in the dark

01:13:14.460 it's not my cup of tea i don't fancy that okay and then the last one for today

01:13:22.220 unless more come in in the next 20 seconds or so marcos 588 says gt race max entered

01:13:30.120 big quality shunt r.i.p juha juha okay oh so that would be in reference to the

01:13:38.140 nurburgring so i know max does all sorts of other racing doesn't he now uh you know virtual and real

01:13:46.200 life so it's a gt race with max that'd be max verstappen and there was a big crashing quali

01:13:52.280 and someone died i'll have to look that up that passed me by harry did you google it yeah so it

01:13:58.960 was um seven cars were involved in it right it was a crack it was a crashing quali yeah yeah

01:14:06.620 someone died at least one person died yeah it was seven cars crashed and one one person died

01:14:12.220 it's pretty horrendous oh god okay oh well there you go the nurberg ring is a dangerous circuit

01:14:19.620 quite a lot of blind corners blind crests some people some people sort of refuse to race at

01:14:27.460 the nurberg ring because it's so dangerous especially if you're in like a you're not

01:14:32.700 just going around on your own on a track day in like your own bmw but you're in something

01:14:36.260 extremely fast extremely light and fast with downforce package and you go off the road at

01:14:43.360 like 200 miles an hour or something well yeah r.i.p that person who ever died

01:14:51.700 all right on that note on that note that's the show it's now 15 minutes past nine in the a.m

01:15:00.400 British summer time on Monday the 20th of April in the year of our Lord 2026 it's a glorious day

01:15:06.560 it's a glorious morning it feels like springing in Britain in the southeast in Wiltshire do try

01:15:11.940 and make the best of the day ahead I know it's not always possible it really isn't when you've

01:15:14.600 got a job and all sorts of responsibilities all over the show can't always make the best of the

01:15:18.940 day can you if you can if you're responsible carpe diem seize the day try to do something

01:15:23.580 important to value with your time it's the most valuable thing you've got your time never get it

01:15:28.480 in fact far more valuable than any gold or jewels or cars or houses you will ever own

01:15:34.240 your time try and make it count all right then until tomorrow morning

01:15:58.480 We'll be right back.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 20, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 20th April 2026

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